... er 10,000 square meters from the current 7,000 square meters. Also, the ceiling height will rise to 9 meters from 3.5 meters, according to information posted on the government website. The project is ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... ven a 350 square foot shoebox in Tin Shui Wai now costs almost HK$10,000 to rent. You have two options: either find a roommate (or roommates) or rent a subdivided flat barely larger than the size of a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... f 500,000 square meters, will include facilities for retail, food and beverages, entertainment, conferences, offices and business hospitality. It will be subject to a height limit of 10 stories, becau ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... ent a 700-square-foot furnished flat in Taichung for the equivalent of around HK$5,000. Eric and his wife are planning to open a Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng, or tea restaurant, there. "We've visite ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... 5 million square feet) in the northeast part of the park is suitable for a public housing project with 30,000 units. Designated in 1979 and occupying 5,412 hectares of woodland in the Western New Terr ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... HK$82 per square foot in 1973. Although the average daily wage was only about HK$25, it was much easier back then for a worker to put a roof over his head. In 1973, the newly born HKEJ newspaper was 2 ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... Tiananmen Square crackdown — and the group’s incumbent chairman, Democratic Party lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan, the report said. Yuen said he respects Lee's decision to enter the mainland, adding that ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... taled 657 square kilometers, National Bureau of Statistics figures show. That is the most unsold space in at least two years, and an area nearly the size of Singapore. The new policy being tested in a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... K$110 per square feet to HK$1,100 per square feet. Beijing announced in September 1982 that it would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong. China and Britain then signed the Sino-British J ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... 3,000 per square foot in 2003 but now a home there goes for at least HK$14,000 psf, a fourfold increase in 12 years. Those bankrupt mortgagors would surely strike gold if they were able to weather the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... t 380,000 square meters, and 90 percent of the construction work in the underground portion has already been completed. The government could easily turn the site into the biggest underground shopping ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... Tiananmen Square crackdown, said he wants to know if he will be deemed to be an offender under China's new law and face prosecution if he crosses the border. He made the comments after Sing Tao Dail ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... igs and 2 square kilometers of fish ponds. Cameras have been installed around the park, and staff will report back to the seismological bureau on the animals' behavior twice a day. "Animals sometimes ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
The maid’s toilet in a 957 square feet penthouse at a housing project in Tai Kok Tsui takes up only 5 sq ft, i-Cable reported. The news video showed well-known home inspector Tsim Chai-nam failing in ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... tual town square where posts are typically public, allowing strangers to interact and debate issues ranging from politics to popular culture. Even so, both WeChat and Weibo are known to be monitored b ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
On July 17 last year, the government suddenly closed the east wing forecourt of the Central Government Offices in Admiralty, also known as Civic Square. It then erected a three-meter-high steel perime ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
... t is 47.8 square feet, down nearly 30 percent from a year earlier. The survey polled 66 families in subdivided flats in seven districts including Kwun Tong, Sheung Wan and Sham Shui Po during the pa ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-26
... wed a 430 square foot flat on Hong Kong Island cost HK$13,517 (US$1,743) psf in April, up 270 percent from HK$3,638 in 2005. Leung has promised around 20,000 private housing units will be completed ne ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... 00 to 200 square feet in size. The settings are completely different from the statutory plans of the building drawn up in 1963 when there were no rooms across the five storeys, the report said. Repor ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-24
... 20 to 765 square feet and is partitioned by a foot-high cement wall with metal bars. The Lands Department said anyone who sets up a farm on the rooftop of an industrial building is violating the title ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
